Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mind and body / TV and Radio on 7 December 2011. No comments.
Ian Hislop very nearly told us (When Bankers Were Good, BBC2) that Dickensian bankers were more moral than our own. A couple of literati on the Today show (BBC Radio 4, 7 December 2011) did actually say how awful and Dickensian our times are. (The inequality! The homeless!) So which is it? More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mind and body on 1 December 2011. No comments.
We are routinely said to have “lost a decade” and that the loss is unrecoverable. I have no idea what this means. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Politics and campaigns on 25 November 2011. No comments.
Max Mosley seems to have swept all before him and does so because his case pushes into so many corners of the matters Leveson is considering. Pace the rather silly remarks by Hugo Rifkind in The Times (25 November 2011) it is important that we don’t wrongly calibrate the media’s offences. More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 24 November 2011. No comments.
In recent episodes of BBC Radio 4′s The Food Programme there have been interesting examples of – and some challenges to – the show’s dogma. I think it is fair to say the show is crusading for something it calls “real food”. But what is that? More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body / TV and Radio on 11 November 2011. No comments.
Mr Gervais’s new comedy is not very funny.
But it made me uncomfortable only because I am not sure it is proper to let Ricky Gervais pull my chain. More »
Posted by RDN under Military Covenant / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns on 8 November 2011. No comments.
The British Computer Society asked me to be one of two responders at a debate dinner featuring Trevor Phillips of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (7 November 2011).
The question was: will it be possible for someone to be a full citizen without digital access? More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 6 November 2011. No comments.
Edward Burra is far more impressive in the flesh than in reproduction. Waldemar Januszczak got almost everything about him right, I think, in the Sunday Times, and I add only this … More »
Posted by RDN under Mind and body on 19 September 2011. 2 comments.
I had four great days in and around the Hanseatic League city, Visby, and its island of Gotland. As the new Gudrun Sjödén catalogue says: the island is a symphony of greys. Visby, though, is vivid, and brilliantly coloured. It has plenty of Farrow and Ball chic, but also bags of winter-defying gaudiness. (All in the best possible taste, of course.) Here’s a brief guide… More »
Posted by RDN under Economic crisis / Mind and body / Politics and campaigns / RDN's media cribsheets on 26 August 2011. 2 comments.
I’ve been invited to the Greenbelt religious festival (27/08/11) to debate ” The Poor are Poor because the Rich are Rich?” It is arranged round a Methodist document, Of Equal Value: Poverty and Inequality in the United Kingdom. More »
Posted by RDN under Handling protest / Mind and body on 12 August 2011. One comment.
Here’s a stab at an explanation for these nice, middle class rioters and looters. It’s clear that they are not immoral or wicked, or even all that badly brought up. More »
